360° panorama

[Ikke_006]

Hi, I am going to Nepal in october, and by then I would love to be able to make a great panorama pictures.

Does anyone know a good tutorial on how to combine different pictures to a 360° panorama?

Since I am just a beginner I need info on every step: from the choice of the gear until the software program I need and all the final touches.

Thanks in advance!


PS: Wee Planets on Flickr: by the way, this seems really cool, but difficult. Any tutorials on this?

[aramil]

Hey Ikke,
Good luck in Nepal. I was looking at creating Panoramas myself a few weeks ago, and I was at the same time interested in creating "mini planets". Here is the site that I found that really was helpful to me.
http://photojojo.com/content/tutoria...orama-planets/
This is the result that I got from using the tutorial



As for creating a Panorama, Photoshop CS2 and CS3 both have this photomerge feature that will allow you to create some beautiful ones. There are also some free ones out there that will allow you to stitch the pictures together. The site below gives some really useful tips.

http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/pho...gPanoramas.htm

Hope all of this helps, and I hope you have a wonderful and safe trip to Nepal, don't forget to share your pics once you get back.

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Hugin and Autopano works for me

[wijew]

hey,

try auto stitch. its a free software download and it's really easy to use. you can download it from http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
I've used it on all the panos (with multiple images) on my flickr sight.

good luck in Nepal.

[netbymatt]

I did a lot of panoramas a long while ago and used MGI Photosuite 4, but that's well out of date now.

One thing I remember from doing it is to take all of your individual images in a portrait orientation for a horizontal panorama, this way you've got plenty "height" in your final image after you get everything aligned.

[Ikke_006]

Hi, thank you all for this info and the great links!
I can't wait to practice!

[inkista]

Here's a video tutorial on using Hugin:
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-019-p...lenge-for-you/

And the Hugin page has a ton of tutorials:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/index.shtml

If you're interested in 360x180 (cubic) panoramas, I'd actually recommend looking at panomundo's tutorial, although bits of it are a little out of date and it's mac/PTMac/Photoshop-oriented, it's the only tutorial I've seen that covers both the hardware/shooting end and the software post-processing workflow.

Aramil, that looks more like a "little sky" to me than a "little planet". And it's waay more fun to use a cubic pano to make stereographic little planets. Flexify rocks.

[jsanders]

Thanks for sharing this. It was my plan to take some panorama shot's myself. Have never looked into it but the tips overhere look great!

[Linn]

Originally Posted by wijew

hey,

try auto stitch. its a free software download and it's really easy to use. you can download it from http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
I've used it on all the panos (with multiple images) on my flickr sight.

good luck in Nepal.

Hi all,

this is fun - I find a lot of answers to the questions I have. Newbee both here and to DSLR photograhpy with a lot to learn. Does anyone know a similar (free?) stich software that runs under Mac OS x?

[inkista]

Nope, other than Hugin (which isn't that similar).

The Autostitch port to OSX is commerical software from Kekus. It's called Calico. It's relatively inexpensive, but it's not free.